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I'm a well-known mainframe performance guy, with almost 30 years of experience helping customers manage systems. I also dabble in lots of other technology. I've sought to widen the Performance role, incorporating aspects of infrastructural architecture.
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Inspired by two of Bob Leah's posts on QR Codes - here and here I started experimenting with creating and consuming QR codes. But what is a QR code? In short it's a two-dimensional barcode that can contain e.g plain text or a URL. In the latter case a QR code reader can pick up the URL - maybe from a real-world object - and open it in a browser.
Creating QR Codes In my experiment I created the... [More]

Round about now you'd be expecting posts to be geared towards the recent zEC12 announcement, or perhaps CICS TS 5.1 or the DB2 11 Preview, or IDAA V3.
So what this post is about will probably have slipped by unnoticed.
After all you don't spend all your time looking for obscure New Function APARs, do you? But I think some of you will find this one of value, or at least quite interesting. (I... [More]